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Google Maps gets support for 39 new languages
Mar 27, 5:13PM
Google today announced that Google Maps is getting support for 39 new languages. The newly supported languages are Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Bosnian, Burmese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, Georgian, Hebrew, Icelandic, Indonesian, Kazakh, Khmer, Kyrgyz, Lao, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Mongolian, Norwegian, Persian, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swahili, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, […]
Apple doubles down on book creation with iPad app
Mar 27, 5:06PM
Apple’s ebook creation tools – first launched in 2012 – have long played an interesting if minor role in the ecosystem. While Amazon has the indie book world sewn up with Kindle Direct Publishing, the desktop-based iBooks Author has always been the multimedia alternative and a favorite for folks creating one-off texts. Although there are […]
Google Play Movies & TV becomes a one-stop shop for everything that streams
Mar 27, 5:00PM
With the explosion of streaming services now available, it’s becoming more difficult to figure out not just what movie or TV show to watch next, but where you can actually watch it. Google today is rolling out its solution to this problem with a significant revamp of its Google Play Movies & TV app and […]
Lytro, a light-field imaging startup, is shutting down
Mar 27, 4:57PM
Lytro, the light-field imaging startup focused on virtual reality, is shutting down. In a blog post, Lytro said it’s going to begin winding down and will not be taking on any new productions or providing new services. Earlier this month, we heard Google would be acquiring Lytro in an “asset sale.” Word on the street […]
Nvidia suspends all autonomous vehicle testing
Mar 27, 4:55PM
Nvidia is temporarily stopping testing of its autonomous vehicle platform in response to last week's fatal collision of a self-driving Uber car with a pedestrian. TechCrunch confirmed this with the company.
Bedrock Capital raises $122M to fund startups that reject conventional wisdom
Mar 27, 4:47PM
Most investors don’t like to admit that they’re chasing the latest buzzwords or fads or hot companies, but a new firm called Bedrock Capital says it’s on a mission to do the exact opposite — founders Geoff Lewis and Eric Stromberg told me they’re searching for “narrative violations.” So rather than just writing a check […]
Apple's learn-to-code app Swift Playgrounds adds AR lessons
Mar 27, 4:46PM
Amid a flurry of educational-related announcements at Apple’s press event this morning, the company also unveiled a new feature in its learn-to-code app Swift Playgrounds, that will help teach a younger generation of iOS developers how to build AR-enabled apps. Apple has been heavily pushing augmented reality and its ARKit for developers, as the technology […]
Apple is finally selling the Space Gray mouse, keyboard and trackpad without an iMac Pro
Mar 27, 4:41PM
Surprise! You don't have to pay $5,000 or more to get a Space Gray Magic Mouse 2, Magic Keyboard or Magic Trackpad 2. You can now buy those devices separately. And because this is Apple, you'll have to pay more to get the dark items. The Magic Mouse 2 costs $79 in silver and $99 […]
Tesla fatal car crash prompts NTSB investigation
Mar 27, 4:33PM
The United States National Transportation Safety Board is conducting an investigation into a fatal car crash involving a Tesla Model X car. On March 23, a Tesla car crashed into a freeway divider, killing the driver, causing a fire and shutting down two lanes of Highway 101 near Mountain View, Calif. It’s not clear if […]
Udacity introduces real robots and virtual worlds to help students build skills
Mar 27, 4:30PM
Udacity is hosting its annual Intersect conference this week, and the online learning platform is introducing some new programs and features for students at the event. Those include two new ways for students to practice and hone their practical skills – in both real and virtual worlds. For robotics education, Udacity is teaming up with […]
Udacity debuts a dedicated School of AI with three new nanodegrees
Mar 27, 4:30PM
Udacity is intruding three dedicated new nanodegrees (its own accelerated learning program) in the field of artificial intelligence, which will become part of its new School of AI. AI has been a subject Udacity has taught nearly since its inception, beginning over five years ago, and the field has changed a lot since. It’s seen […]
Braintree launches Extend to integrate loyalty, fraud prevention and other services into payments
Mar 27, 4:26PM
Braintree, the division of PayPal that provides payment services to e-commerce and other online businesses, is making its latest move to help raise its game against competitors like Stripe. It is launching a new solution called Extend, a set of tools to integrate Braintree payments more closely and easily with other services that online companies […]
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will reportedly testify before Congress
Mar 27, 4:21PM
After declining a summons from a UK parliamentary committee that's investigating how social media data is being used this morning, it appears that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg may end up finally going before Congress to testify amid a wave of privacy debacles, according to a report by CNN. CNN reports that Zuckerberg has come to terms […]
Apple's "Pencil" now works with its iWork toolkit
Mar 27, 3:43PM
Apple is bringing its pencil to the masses. The pencil tool will now work across Apple’s suite of iWork tools — including the popular Pages (document creation) Numbers (its spreadsheet app), and Keynote (for presentations) apps — on the low-cost iPad that Apple first brought to market last year. At an event today in Chicago, Apple announced its latest […]
Rackspace may reportedly go public again after a $4.3B deal took it private in 2016
Mar 27, 3:43PM
Rackspace, which was taken private in a $4.3 billion deal in August 2016 by private equity firm Apollo Global Management, is reportedly in consideration for an IPO by the firm, according to a report by Bloomberg. The company could have an enterprise value of up to $10 billion, according to the report. Rackspace opted to […]
Apple introduces a cheap 9.7-inch iPad with Apple Pencil support
Mar 27, 3:27PM
Apple is holding a press conference right now in Chicago. And the company unveiled a brand new device — well, sort of. Apple is going to sell a brand new 9.7-inch iPad that works with the Apple Pencil. Before today, only (more expensive) iPad Pro models could take advantage of the Pencil. Today’s new iPad […]
Follow along live from the Apple education iPad event in Chicago
Mar 27, 3:03PM
Apple held an education focused event in Chicago today at Lane Technical High School. CEO Tim Cook took the stage and began his announcements with a nod to the student marches that occurred this week in support of gun control. Cook praised Lane Tech High for having more PHDs coming out of it than any […]
Stride, Atlassian's Slack competitor, hits general availability
Mar 27, 3:00PM
Last September, Atlassian launched Stride, its take on a Slack-like real-time communications platform for text, audio and video chats, into beta. Six months later, Stride is now generally available to any and all teams that want to give it a try. While Atlassian is a bit cagey about providing exact user numbers, so the numbers […]
Google Cloud launches a new text-to-speech engine for developers
Mar 27, 3:00PM
Text-to-speech synthesis has made great strides over the course of the last few years, up to the point where many modern systems almost sound like a real person is reading a text. Google has been among the leaders of this development and starting today, developers will get access to the same DeepMind-developed text-to-speech engine that […]
3D printed rocket maker Relativity raises $35M to simplify satellite launches
Mar 27, 3:00PM
LA-based space startup Relativity has raised $35 million in Series B funding, in a new round led by Playground Global, and including existing investors Social Capital, Y Combinator Continuity and Mark Cuban. The funding will help the startup expand its automated, 3D-printing process for manufacturing rockets quickly and with greatly reduced complexity, with the ultimate […]
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